"You say you want a revolution, we better get it on right away"
John Lennon
The lines between country and corporation have blurred so completely they have all but vanished, so that politicians only decide how the planet will be raped for short term gain. And war, the biggest business of all, will continue to be a booming industry as long as there's anything left in the universe to blow up. Workers will forever teeter between being worked to death and starved to death all for the promise of a brighter day. The possibility (however improbable) of the average worker becoming wealthy in their lifetime is the carrot, and the prison in every town and city is the stick.
Our corporate models are designed to squeeze every resource more tightly every quarter to bring back bigger and bigger profits to the shareholders. This is a machine designed to make the rich richer and the poor poorer at an exponential rate. Their wealth buys them every material possession they could imagine, but wealth is also power, and the wealthy enjoy more rights than those of the poor. Justice and democracy do not exist in the realm of capitalism because wealth buys elections and wins court cases. Health is even for sale and many people simply cannot afford to pay medical bills, to make people poorer is to take from them their health.
Those who sit in the executive positions of states and corporations also enjoy the security of almost complete insulation from those who suffer from their decision making. The wealthiest 5% do not just get bumped into on the streets, they have their own worlds and rarely do they leave them. They can go from their massive estate to their country club, and then off to the VIP section of the local airport to have their private jet take them to their private island in the Bahamas. The rich and powerful spend much of their money on security to keep us away from them so they never have to listen to our cries for justice. All one has to do to experience this is demonstrate at the meetings of the WTO, the G8 or G20, or any other conspiring of these entities.
For some people there is nothing left to lose, the police are at the door with the eviction notice from the bank and there's no place else in the world for them to go. Maybe they have unpaid medical bills and just lost their job, or they have been looking but there is no job and unemployment cut them off. Isolated and afraid some people take desperate actions like the man who flew his small plane into an IRS building, some just suffer in silence. For most people in America revolution would be a major inconvenience, they still have something left to lose and they think they can keep it and still have more. It has always been important for the wealthy to keep a balance between the desperate and the content, but this equilibrium has ended.
What is revolution? Well it can be a lot of things, it can be a violent upheaval or it can be a grassroots campaign gone global. I do not condone the use of violence but for those in power violence is the solution to every problem, and when they engage people in violent ways they are spinning their own fate. I believe we can have a peaceful revolution world wide with the majority of the 10 billion souls willing to lay everything on the line for a new lateral world without corporations creating modern day aristocrats to rule over the peasants. Money is the contract by which we sell our souls to our governments and relinquish our power to the wealthy. You can be a revolutionary with a wallet, a ballot, or a bullet, but it's not revolutionary if it doesn't change the world.
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